Sergei Nagaitsev, director of the Fermilab Accelerator Complex user facility, looks to the future while running the day-to-day duties in support of the Office of Science High Energy Physics program's goal: to understand how our universe works at its most fundamental level.

02.21.18 Vlastimil Kunc is the polymer team lead at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at ORNL. He and his colleagues meticulously research the best combination of materials for 3D-printing various objects, leveraging materials science, modeling, and simulations.

02.20.18 Neutron scattering at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory helped a multi-institutional team led by Tulane University investigate a graphene-like strontium-manganese-antimony material (Sr1-yMn1-zSb2) that hosts what researchers suspect is a Weyl semimetal phase.

Two test detectors being installed and tested at CERN are the prototypes of the much larger detectors planned for DUNE, the biggest international science project ever conducted in the United States and hosted by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Read More

University Research

Building on the success of 10 years of investigation into the production of renewable fuels from plants, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, recently embarked on a new mission: to develop sustainable alternatives to transportation fuels and products currently derived from petroleum.

A team led by Anne White, the Cecil and Ida Green Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Pablo Rodriguez Fernandez, a graduate student in the department, has conducted studies that offer a new take on the complex physics of plasma heat transport and point toward more robust models of fusion plasma behavior.

Scientists at Michigan State University have linked how water-dwelling bacteria monitor light wavelengths in their surroundings with their capacity to do photosynthesis. The research has medical/biofuels implications.